Research Guides @ Fordham: Online Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education: Databases/Articles

Best Bet Databases

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
Worldwide index of books, journal articles, reviews and essays in all fields of religion with many links to full text. Includes all ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) titles and content previously available in the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index® (ATLA CPLI®). This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (ATLA)
Merged with ATLA Religion Database
Christian Periodical Index This link opens in a new window
An index to over 130 Evangelical Christian journals.
Civilta Cattolica, English Edition This link opens in a new window
The most respected digital Catholic journal from Rome. Articles, commentaries and reflections (written by Jesuits and viewed and approved by an official of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State) focus on theological, philosophical, moral, historical, political, social and literary topics. Go to Passwords List for access information.
EBSCOhost Databases List This link opens in a new window
Collection of full text and bibliographic databases covering every area of academic study. Mobile users will be automatically recognized.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Largest collection of education journals. Provides indexing & abstracting to over 1500 journals, and full text to over 750. Includes full text of numerous books and conference papers.
Encyclopaedia Judaica This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Articles on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion.
Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new window
Brill Online Reference Works. Includes 2nd and 3rd editions and the Historical Atlas of Islam.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library. 10 volume encyclopedia edited by Donald Borchert. Macmillian, 2006. Go to Table of Contents for full text.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception This link opens in a new window
Published by De Gruyter. First comprehensive reference work on biblical reception in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions. Will be published between 2010 and 2018 in 30 volumes.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (Qur'anic Studies Online) This link opens in a new window
Brill Online Reference Works. Comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qurān. Dictionary of Qurʾanic & Qurʾān Concordance included.
Jesuit Online Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. Editorial oversight from the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, the Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven, and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.
JSTOR (EXPANDED COLLECTIONS) This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of academic journals in full text from v.1: n.1. Primary source materials include 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. All Open Content, Journal Collections, and Reports are available to Fordham users. Artstor database of visual media is now accessible from the JSTOR platform. Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources). Fordham does not subscribe to the Constellate text/data analytics service. Users can download full datasets with up to 25,000 items. CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION.
Collections with Access:
Arts & Sciences I through XV, Ireland, Life Sciences, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, Global Plants,19th Century British Pamphlets
New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd Edition 2003) This link opens in a new window
Ceased after 2nd ed. (2003). Go to Table of Content for full text. For Supplements see Gale Ebooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library.)
New Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of articles from thousands of journals, monographs, and reviews related to New Testament studies since 1985.
Old Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of articles from several hundreds journals, monographs, and software related to Old Testament studies. Coverage since 1978.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles on broad range of subjects since 1971
PsycARTICLES (APA) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of full text articles from journals published by the APA. On EBSCOhost platform.
PsycBOOKS (APA) This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly and professional books and chapters published by APA and other publishers. Includes Encyclopedia of Psychology and all volumes of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series. On EBSCOhost platform. All PsycBooks have UNLIMITED user access.
PsycINFO (APA) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and Indexing to serial and book literature in psychology since 1840. On EBSCOhost platform.
Religious & Theological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

E-Journals Collections

Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals covering all topics.
NOTE: Some content may not be freely available.
POIESIS: Philosophy Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Allows searching of the entire database, access to full text only for subscribed journals.
Project MUSE - Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of hundreds of journals including current issues. Additional features available with the creation of a personal account. NOTE: We do not have access to all content in this database, and there is no access to non-OA books. Limit your search by selecting 'Only content I have access to' in the facets pane on the left. This database applies non-standard use of Boolean operators. Consult a Fordham Librarian for search support.
Wiley Online Library - All Journals Database 2023 This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to all Wiley Journals - 2023 Collection. Typical access is 1996/1997 to Present. Always click on the journal title to see specific years of access, even if there is no access icon visible on the front page.

Individual Journals

--American Journal of Pastoral Counseling

--British Journal of Religious Education

--International Journal of Children's Spirituality

--Journal of Clinical Pastoral Work

--Journal of Family Ministry

--Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

--Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality

--Journal of Ministry & Theology

--Journal of Ministry in Addiction & Recovery

--Journal of Ministry, Marketing & Management

--Journal of Pastoral Care

--Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling

--Journal of Pastoral Counseling

--Journal of Religion, Spirituality, & Aging

--Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work

--Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health

--Journal of Youth Ministry

--Liturgical Ministry

--McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry

--Pastoral Care in Education

--Pastoral Psychology

--Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

--Studies in Spirituality

The Catholic Research Resources Alliance, A.K.A. The Catholic Portal

View The Catholic Portal research guide by Ted Bergfelt of the Gumberg Library at Duquesne University.

The Catholic Portal: What It Is and How To Use It

The Catholic Worker Digital Archive

The Catholic Worker Digital Archive
Fordham Libraries also has a print subscription to the Catholic Worker; check Library Catalog for details.

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Document Delivery

Document Delivery Service

The Document Delivery Service allows Fordham University faculty and graduate students to obtain email delivery of journal articles not available electronically through the Fordham databases but which are available in print in the library.

This service was established to allow faculty, and now students, to request and receive research materials with proper copyright clearance via their Fordham email accounts.

Need Materials from Outside Fordham?

Cannot find items you need for your research?

Materials not owned by Fordham can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Consortia privileges provide you with additional access to other research collections* beyond Fordham’s holdings.

*Check with the library you intend to visit to be sure that in-person access is available at this time.

Open Access Journals

Berghahn Open Anthro S2O This link opens in a new window
Content for 16 journals is OA beginning 2020 or later. Continued access is not guaranteed.
BioMed Central BMC This link opens in a new window
Several hundred peer-reviewed open access journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine subject areas from Springer Science+Business Media.
Brill Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Growing list of Open Access journals from Brill.
Cambridge University Press: Open This link opens in a new window
Open Ejournals and Ebooks in a variety of subject areas.
CLOCKSS Triggered Content This link opens in a new window
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications. Content no longer available from any publisher ("triggered content") is available for free with a Creative Commons license.
DeGruyter Open This link opens in a new window
Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals covering all topics.
NOTE: Some content may not be freely available.
Firenze University Press: Open Access Ejournals This link opens in a new window
Fifty Open Access journals covering a wide range of subjects.
Hindawi Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Over one hundred peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science.
IEEE Open This link opens in a new window
Fully open access journals from IEEE spanning a wide range of technologies.
IOPscience OA Journals This link opens in a new window
Over 30 key online journals fully Open Access.
Karger Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline.
Making of America, journals and monographs (Cornell University) This link opens in a new window
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Making of America, journals and monographs (University of Michigan) This link opens in a new window
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories This link opens in a new window
Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories that lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria.
Project Euclid Open Access This link opens in a new window
Complete holdings of selected math and statistics journals from a variety of publishers hosted by Project Euclid.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new window
A non-profit organization dedicated to making scientific literature freely available by publishing a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Includes submission of papers that have been shared
as preprints.
RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies This link opens in a new window
A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies. Compiled from thousands of periodicals and collections of articles in many languages mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.
Royal Society Open Science This link opens in a new window
Open journal with high-quality peer-reviewed original research. Covers the entire range of science and mathematics. See new section called "Science, Society, and Policy" for published work that sits at the interface of Science, Society, and Policy.
Sage Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license.
ScienceDirect Open Access This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of free journals from Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform.
Scientific Reports This link opens in a new window
An OA peer-reviewed journal from Nature.com publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering.
SpringerOpen Journals This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of free peer-reviewed journals from Springer, across all areas of science.
Taylor & Francis Open Access This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication.
Thieme Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Over fifty health, medicine and science Open Access titles.Chrome browser recommended.
University of California Press - Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Collabra is University of California Press's open access journal program. The Collabra program currently publishes Collabra: Psychology and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, with plans for continued expansion and journal acquistion.
Wiley-Blackwell Open Access Collection This link opens in a new window
Wiley's fully open access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals.
To access content, choose "Journal Information" under the relevant title.

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Online Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education: Databases/Articles